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Life on Mars: Carmel Johnston / Space

With Carmel Johnston and Alan Duffy

‘You can fake your personality for a couple of weeks, at most ... But over the long term, your true personality will come out.’

Carmel Johnston, an environmental scientist, was the crew commander of NASA’s most recent Hawaii Space Exploration Analog and Simulation (HI-SEAS) project. As part of this mission, she spent an entire year living with five other scientists…

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Big Time: James Gleick / Science & technology

With James Gleick and George Aranda

It’s easy to forget that when H.G. Wells wrote The Time Machine back in 1895, the notion of travelling through time was a totally fresh and radical leap of imagination. ‘When Wells in his lamp-lit room imagined a time machine,’ writes the acclaimed American science writer James Gleick, ‘he also invented a new mode of thought.’

Time Travel: A History …

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Life on Mars: Carmel Johnston / Space

Carmel Johnston, an environmental scientist, was the crew commander of NASA’s most recent Hawaii Space Exploration Analog and Simulation (HI-SEAS) project. As part of this mission, she spent an entire year living with five other scientists in an 11-metre-wide geodesic dome on the Mars-like slopes of Mauna Loa volcano in Hawaii.

The focus of the study, which concluded in August last year, was psychological. NASA wanted to learn individual stress reactions and group cohesion in an intensely cramped, isolated environment comparable to life in a space vessel on Mars. The researchers had to wear full space suits any time they left the dome, and resources were painstakingly rationed and recycled.

In conversation with astronomer Alan Duffy, Johnston reveals what she learned about group dynamics, freeze-dried food and social survival in a space dome.

Presented in partnership with WOMADelaide’s Planet Talks Programme.

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Life on Mars: Carmel Johnston / Space

With Carmel Johnston and Alan Duffy

‘You can fake your personality for a couple of weeks, at most ... But over the long term, your true personality will come out.’

Carmel Johnston, an environmental scientist, was the crew commander of NASA’s most recent Hawaii Space Exploration Analog and Simulation (HI-SEAS) project. As part of this mission, she spent an entire year living with five other scientists…

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You Don't Know Me

Nayuka Gorrie on Blerd Culture / Science fiction

With Nayuka Gorrie

In public, Nayuka Gorrie has emerged as a passionate young Aboriginal activist and writer, primarily concerned with black politics and feminism. She’s written incisively on topics such as her evolving views about constitutional recognition, performed her work at Women of Letters and works in the youth not-for-profit sector as a program manager.

The natural question to ask is: what TV…

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Does the universe have a memory? Alan Duffy / Science & technology

With Alan Duffy

Once a moment has passed, does that mean it is gone forever – or does it exist somewhere else? Astronomer Alan Duffy is an expert on the invisible parts of the Universe. Over a fast-paced half hour (1.581e+21 atoseconds, to be exact), he explores transience, time and the lifespan of an action.

Anything and everything in Space from across our archives.

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10 - Ten Writers, Five Double-Bills

Dava Sobel and Barbara Arrowsmith-Young / History

With Robyn Williams, Natasha Mitchell, Dava Sobel and 1 other

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Life on Mars: Carmel Johnston / Space

With Carmel Johnston and Alan Duffy

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Big Time: James Gleick / Science & technology

With James Gleick and George Aranda

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The Interrobang: A Festival of Questions

Does the universe have a memory? Alan Duffy / Space

With Alan Duffy

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Elemental / Poetry

Art & us: Art & the universe / Space

With Willoh S. Weiland, Christopher Fluke, and Jeff Khan

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Does the universe have a memory? Alan Duffy / Science & technology

With Alan Duffy

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For Thought: Origins / Science & technology

With Rachel Webster, Lawrence Krauss, Paul Davies and 1 other

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Elemental: Bendigo / Music

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The Interrobang: A Festival of Questions

Does science fiction give us an unrealistic expectation that we can effectively inhabit Mars? Questions on discovery, imagination and progress / Science & technology

With Cory Doctorow, Maggie Ryan Sandford, Sammy J and 1 other

Portrait of Katie Mack

Katie Mack / Space
http://astrokatie.com/
Throughout her career as a researcher at Caltech, Princeton, Cambridge and now University of Melbourne, she has studied dark matter, black holes, cosmic strings, and the formation of the first galaxies in the Universe.

Katie is also an active online science communicator and is passionate about science outreach. As a science writer, she has been published by Slate, Cosmos, Sky & Telescope, Time.com, The Economist tech blog Babbage and other popular publications.

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Art & us

Art & the universe / Science & technology

With Elizabeth Finkel, Willoh S. Weiland, Christopher Fluke and 1 other

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Dava Sobel / Space

With Dava Sobel and Robyn Williams

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Privatisation of Space / Space

With Dianne McGrath, Angus Hervey, Alice Gorman and 1 other

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Elemental: Bendigo / Poetry

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The Interrobang: A Festival of Questions

How does the world end? Upulie Divisekera / Science & technology

With Upulie Divisekera

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Does science fiction give us an unrealistic expectation that we can effectively inhabit Mars? Questions on discovery, imagination and progress / Science & technology

With Upulie Divisekera, Cory Doctorow, Sammy J and 1 other

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Preaching to the Choir, Refusing to Change and Alien Worlds: Rebellion and Tomorrow / Art

By Jo Case

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